In 2015, America was the ninth richest country in the world (by GDP PPP) and the fourteenth in average ranking of its educational system. By comparison, Canada, a very similar nation culturally, was the fifteenth richest country in the world and seventh in its educational system.

I recently spoke with Robin S. Eubanks, whose blog Invisible Serfs Collar is a massive data dump exploring the long-term social engineering goals behind the Common Core State Standards Initiative currently pushing K-12 schooling in the US.

An Arizona lawmaker who believes the earth is only 6,000 years old is the new chairwoman of the State Senate committee that oversees education-related legislation. On Monday, December 21 Senate President Andy…

Character rigging is the process of adding joints, musculature and other anatomy to a character model, and facilitating the control of these through handles or controllers for the animator. In short, think…

This article originally appeared on Common Dreams. A year-long investigation by the Wisconsin-based Center for Media and Democracy has revealed a severe dearth of public information about how federal and state taxes…

Are college students only exposed to Western philosophers? Probably. Does it matter? Eric Schwitzgebel via LA Times: Philosophy professors in the United States have all heard of Confucius and the Daoist Laozi….

When I was a wee lad, sometime before my family left the (at the time somewhat) civilized confines of Denver to settle in the geographically and spiritually barren San Luis Valley, I would get out of going to the 3rd grade by pretending I had a serious pain in my testicles.

David Mihalyfy argues that in order to reform higher education, America should focus on “higher ed’s pre-modern governance system, which lacks transparency and accountability and thus easily permits diversion of funds by ‘badmin’,…

Fuller Pendleton writing at This Civilization in Ruins: Reflexive thinking seems to pervade the landscape. The causes are unclear, but its existence is undeniable. We jump to conclusions, we utilize stereotypes, and…

Mike LaBossiere explores the importance of public universities, sky-rocketing education costs, and the cutting of public funds. via Talking Philosophy: One stock narrative in the media is that the cost of attending…

Lea Waters, University of Melbourne New research in the fields of psychology, education and neuroscience shows teaching meditation in schools is having positive effects on students’ well-being, social skills and academic skills….